Save Article

Japan's Economically
Challenged Pols

Updated June 14, 2000 12:01 a.m. ET

By Sam Wilkin. Mr. Wilkin is director of Research and Development at Marvin Zonis + Associates, Political Risk Consultants.

A s Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori struggles through his term in office, it is tempting to say that Japan's political leadership doesn't matter. After all, authority over the country's most important economic policies has traditionally rested in the hands of bureaucrats. The markets hardly registered former Prime...